Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change that we seek. — Barack Obama
In a landslide, Obama has won… the most newspaper endorsements. According to this article , Obama-Biden has 240 daily newspaper endorsements while McCain-Palin has 114. That’s a 2-1 margin for Obama. (And lest you think it’s pure liberal media bias, note that about 20% of papers that endorsed Bush have flipped to Obama).
As a resident of Massachusetts, the vote that I will cast tomorrow for President does not matter. My opinion will simply be pooled into the collective sentiment of my infamously liberal neighbors, and our support will be handed to the Democrats, who will be too busy panting over the Virginia percentages to notice good ole reliable Massachusetts. It piques me to consider that my vote does not count as much as the vote of a resident of Ohio or Florida, but at least I’ve been saved from a bombardment of political advertisements and weekly visits from Sarah Palin.
I compensate for this feeling of latent disenfranchisement by donating money to Obama. It makes me smile to know that I’m paying money so that the ninnies in Indiana can be convinced to vote in their economic self-interest. Classic socioeconomic class irony.
I do not purport to believe that my puny endorsement will make a difference, but perhaps there’s some undecided North Carolinian who has stumbled upon this website. It is to this troubled soul that I beseech to go and vote Obama. I won’t try to win you over with stoic eloquence or confusing logic, but rather I’ll appeal to your sense of serendipity: There you were, scouring the Internet for porn and/or a recipe for brussels sprouts pie, when suddenly, there’s this Massachusetts liberal telling you to vote Obama. Some would say coincidence, others would say… miracle.
